the prior September, a digital intrusion for which Bono takes sole responsibility, by the way, absolving even his accomplices/bandmates and Apple chief executive Tim Cook — had a lot of overt autobiographical narrative, too. Then there are the four longform Rolling Stone interviews Bono sat for circa 1987-2017. This is not a man who has ever been reticent when it comes to talking about himself.
Paradoxically, a 560-page memoir is a safe space in which at last no one can accuse him of long-windedness. Or at least, he doesn’t have to feel the eyes of U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr. boring into the back of his skull as the timekeeper sets down his drumsticks, having realized that the singer he recruited for his band in 1976 has once again embarked upon another rambling song introduction.
Well, what about those songs? Any fan who knows U2’s catalogue will recognize that the 40 tunes that supply titles for the book’s 40 chapters are not sequenced chronologically. That’s because the tale those chapters tell is not a linear one. Beginning with an account of a critical heart operation Bono underwent in 2016, the book bobs and weaves among subjects and eras, guided by thematic links more than by temporal signposts.
What’s fascinating is how they didn’t OD. u2 is highly overrated anyway nobody gives a crap
Read the excerpt in the New Yorker. It's fabulous.
U2 - most overrated band of all time.
If his memoir is anything like post The Joshua Tree, then it’s not worth reading.
Hopefully I won’t be forced to listen to it every once in a while no matter how many times I delete it…
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